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There’s still time to see African Presence Art Exhibition, Witness to History: The Photography of Ernest Withers
The 11th Annual African Presence Art Exhibition, “Witness to History: the Photography of Ernest Withers” will be on display in the Alvin Sherman Library, Adolfo & Marisela Cotilla Gallery through Sunday, March 16.
Ernest C. Withers, nicknamed the “Original Civil Rights Photographer,” photographed many unsettling episodes of the 50s and 60s. His images of the shocking racial murder of teenager Emmitt Till still resonate to this day; he captured photos of the nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School; and his camera captured the moments after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
NSU is proud to showcase iconic pieces of Withers’ work which depict the Memphis music scene of the 50s, teams from the Negro Baseball League and of course, the Civil Rights Movement.
The exhibition, which is on loan from the Ernest C. Withers Collection Gallery & Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, can be viewed during regular library hours, 7 days a week.